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名称 Name 开始日期Beginning 立春 the Beginning of Spring (1st solar term) Feb.3,4, or 5 雨水 Rain Water (2nd solar term) Feb.18,19 or 20 惊蜇 the Waking of Insects (3rd solar term) Mar.5,6, or 7 春分 the Spring Equinox (4th solar term) Mar.20,21 or 22 清明 Pure Brightness (5th solar term) Apr.4,5 or 6 谷雨 Grain Rain (6th solar term) Apr.19,20 or 21 立夏 the Beginning of Summer (7th solar term) May 5,6 or 7 小满 Lesser Fullness of Grain (8th solar term) May 20,21 or 22 芒种 Grain in Beard (9th solar term) Jun.5,6 or 7 夏至 the Summer Solstice (10th solar term) Jun.21 or 22 小暑 Lesser Heat (11th solar term) Jul.6,7 or 8 大暑 Greater Heat (12th solar term) Jul.22,23 or 24 立秋 the Beginning of Autumn (13th solar term) Aug.7,8 or 9 处暑 the End of Heat (14th solar term) Aug.22,23 or 24 白露 White Dew (15th solar term) Sep.7,8 or 9 秋分 the Autumn Equinox (16th solar term) Sep.22,23 or 24 寒露 Cold Dew (17th solar term) Oct.8 or 9 霜降 Frosts Descent (18th solar term) Oct.23 or 24 立冬 the Beginning of Winter (19th solar term) Nov.7 or 8 小雪 Lesser Snow (20th solar term) Nov.22 or 23 大雪 Greater Sonw (21th solar term) Dec.6,7 or 8 冬至 the Winter Solstice (22th solar term) Dec.21,22 or 23 小寒 Lesser Cold (23th solar term) Jan.5,6 or 7 大寒 Greater Cold (24th solar term) Jan.20 or 2The Twenty-Four Terms The first fifteen days of the Chinese lunar month makes the first term, namely: Beginning of Spring usually starting from the fourth or fifth of Febrary. And the first day is the Chinese New Years Day or the onset of the Spring Festival. Incidentally, the New Years Day of 1995 is January 31st. The second fifteen days are named: Rain Water from the nineteeth or twentieth of Febrary, a time when rainy seasons are setting in. In order come the following terms: Waking of Insects from the fifth or sixth of March, as the earth awakes from hibernation; Spring Equinox from the twentieth or twenty-first of March; Pure Brightness from the fourth or fifth of April; Grain Rain from the twentieth or